Rev. Robert Warren Stewart (; Pinyin: ''Shǐ Luòbó'';

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: ''Sṳ̄ Lŏk-báik''; 9 March 1850 – 1 August 1895) was an Irish missionary of the Church Missionary Society, London, stationed in Foochow,

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Life

Robert Warren Stewart was born in March 1850 at Gortleitragh House, Dublin, son of James Robert Stewart, a wealthy land agent, and Martha Elinor Warren, daughter of the leading

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, and granddaughter of

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, the head of a prominent landowning family from County Cork. George Francis Stewart, Governor of the

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, was his younger brother.Antony Maitland's Genealogy; Stewarts
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(in England) and at

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. After graduation, he studied law in London, but the spiritual crisis of his conversion occurred at Richmond, Surrey when he was just about to become a lawyer. He became a member of the Church Missionary Society in 1875, and after a year's training at

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he was ordained at

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on Trinity Sunday 1876, together with Rev.

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. Shortly afterwards Robert Stewart married Louisa Katherine Smyly and the couple set out for China with Rev. Ll. Lloyd in September and arrived in Foochow on 14 November.Church Missionary Society (1904) ''For Christ in Fuh-Kien'' Mr. Stewart's first years in China were spent in training the native schoolmasters and catechists, and his wife was put in charge of a school to train native Biblewomen. Their educational work, however, was interrupted by the Wu-shih-shan Case of 1878, which resulted in the burning down of the Theological College and the expulsion of the English Mission from the city proper.Carlson, Ellsworth C. (1974) ''The Foochow Missionaries 1847-1880''. Cambridge, Massachusetts: East Asian Research Center, Harvard University; distributed by Harvard University Press Stewart suffered severely from dysentery in China.Watson, Mary E. (1895):
Robert and Louisa Stewart: In Life and in Death
' In 1891 he went home for a furlough and was redeployed by the C.M.S. Committee to accompany

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on his

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n tour, after which he visited India and returned to China via Canada fully restored in the autumn of 1893. Kucheng massacre cemetery1

On 1 August 1895, he was brutally murdered in Kucheng Hwasang by a sect known as the Vegetarians during the Kucheng Massacre, together with his wife and two children and seven other missionaries connected with the Church Missionary Society or the

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